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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet...
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An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, Ella Minnow Pea brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.” Deified for his achievement in life, he has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter “z” falls from the statue, and the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter “z” is banned from use.
On an island where the residents pride themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock when another tile falls. And then another...
In his charming debut, first published in 2001, Mark Dunn takes readers on a journey through the eyes of Ella Minnow Pea, a young woman forced to find another pangram in order to save the islanders' beloved language. And now, nearly seven years after its original publication, this celebrated tale is enhanced with the illustrations of noted graphic designer Tim Brennan, sure to delight a new generation of readers. ...
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Thirteen-year-old twins Rodney and Wayne McCall and their friend Professor Johnson are the only people in Pitcherville who can see that all the natural laws of the universe have stopped applying to their town. When everyone in Pitcherville wakes up twelve years in the past, baby Rodney and baby Wayne must locate the Professor and find a way to get back to the present.
The first in an exciting new series from the beloved author of Ella Minnow Pea. ...
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